Name: A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts From the World's Greatest Empire (en Inglés)
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Author: McKeown, J. C.
ISBN: 9780195393750

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A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts From the World's Greatest Empire (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

J. C. McKeown

Editorial

Oxford University Press

Año

2010

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

272

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

21.1 x 14.5 x 3.0 cm

Peso

0.43 kg.

ISBN

9780195393750

ISBN13

9780195393750

N° edición

Categorías

Antiguo roma
Estudios literarios: antiguos, clásicos y medievales
Historia de europa: romanos

A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts From the World's Greatest Empire (en Inglés)

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Here is a whimsical and captivating collection of odd facts, strange beliefs, outlandish opinions, and other highly amusing trivia of the ancient Romans. We tend to think of the Romans as a pragmatic people with a ruthlessly efficient army, an exemplary legal system, and a precise and elegant language. A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities shows that the Romans were equally capable of bizarre superstitions, logic-defying customs, and often hilariously derisive views of their fellow Romans and non-Romans. Classicist J. C. McKeown has organized the entries in this entertaining volume around major themes--The Army, Women, Religion and Superstition, Family Life, Medicine, Slaves, Spectacles--allowing for quick browsing or more deliberate consumption. Among the book's many gems are: - Romans on urban living: The satirist Juvenal lists fires, falling buildings, and poets reciting in August as hazards to life in Rome. - On enhanced interrogation: If we are obliged to take evidence from an arena-fighter or some other such person, his testimony is not to be believed unless given under torture. (Justinian) - On dreams: Dreaming of eating books foretells advantage to teachers, lecturers, and anyone who earns his livelihood from books, but for everyone else it means sudden death - On food: When people unwittingly eat human flesh, served by unscrupulous restaurant owners and other such people, the similarity to pork is often noted. (Galen) - On marriage: In ancient Rome a marriage could be arranged even when the parties were absent, so long as they knew of the arrangement, or agreed to it subsequently. - On health care: Pliny caustically described medical bills as a down payment on death, and Martial quipped that Diaulus used to be a doctor, now he's a mortician. He does as a mortician what he did as a doctor. For anyone seeking an inglorious glimpse at the underside of the greatest empire in history, A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities offers endless delights.